Ryan Dawson Laight

Costume Design includes Twelfth Night, La Cage aux Folles (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); A Boy Called Christmas, Redlands (Chichester Festival Theatre); Burlesque: The Musical (Manchester Opera House/Glasgow Theatre Royal); How To Win Against History (Bristol Old Vic); The Creakers (Theatre Royal Plymouth/Southbank Centre); Wild About You (Theatre Royal Drury Lane).  Set and Costume Design includes  A Life in Four Seasons (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare’s Globe); Cinderella (Rose Theatre Kingston); Ride The Cyclone (Southwark Playhouse); The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical (The Other Palace/UK Tour); My Son’s A Queer (But What Can You Do?) (New York City Center/Ambassadors Theatre/Garrick Theatre/Turbine Theatre); I Wish (Unicorn Theatre); A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain (Gate Theatre/Paines Plough); Wind in The Willows, The Wizard of Oz, Peter Pan, A Christmas Carol, Grimm Tales, The Tiger Who Came To Tea (Chichester Festival Theatre); Half-Empty Glasses, The Ultimate Pickle (Paines Plough/Edinburgh/Tour); Just So (Barn Theatre); Frankenstein’s Monster Is Drunk And The Sheep Have Jumped All The Fences (Belfast International Arts Festival/Big Telly/59E59); Torch Song Trilogy (Turbine Theatre); Duckie (Royal Festival Hall); Black (Unity Theatre Liverpool/Soho Theatre); Le Gateau Chocolat (Menier Chocolate Factory); Henry VIII (Guildhall); HMS Pinafore, Chess, Blondel, The Mikado (Union Theatre).  Ryan was Associate Designer for Creation Theatre where he designed over 25 shows.    

Dance includes For Botis Seva, Past the Point (GöteborgsOperans Danskompani), Until We Sleep (Sadler’s Wells/International Tour), Good Youts Walk (UK Tour), BLKDOG (Sadler’s Wells. Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production); For Akram Khan, Memories of the Future (Bradford 25); For Gary Clarke Company, Detention (CAST Doncaster), Wasteland (UK Tour), Coal (UK Tour. UK Theatre Award for Achievement in Dance); For Boy Blue, Gravity (NYDT), Blak Whyte Gray (Barbican. Nominated for Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production), REDD (Barbican); For Drew McOnie, Nutcracker (Southbank Centre), Drunk (Leicester Curve/Bridewell).

Awards include WhatsOnStage Award for Best Costume Design for La Cage aux Folles; nominated for Olivier Award for Best Costume Design for La Cage aux Folles.